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Jobs with Inequality

Financialization, Post-Democracy, and Labour Market Deregulation in Canada

by (author) John Peters

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2022
Category
Canadian, Comparative Politics, General, Social Classes, Public Affairs & Administration
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442646193
    Publish Date
    Jul 2022
    List Price
    $80.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442665125
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $80.00

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Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades. The rich have become richer, while the average household income has deteriorated and job quality has plummeted. Common explanations for these trends point to globalization, technology, or other forces largely beyond our control. But, as Jobs with Inequality shows, there is nothing inevitable about inequality. Rather, runaway inequality is the result of politics and policies - what governments have done to aid the rich and boost finance and what they have not done to uphold the interests of workers.

 

Drawing on new tax and income data, John Peters tells the story of how inequality is unfolding in Canada today by examining post-democracy, financialization, and labour market deregulation. Timely and novel, Jobs with Inequality explains how and why business and government have rewritten the rules of the economy to the advantage of the few, and considers why progressive efforts to reverse these trends have so regularly run aground.

About the author

John Peters is an associated professor and research fellow at the University of Montreal’s Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT).

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